• Original Pegasus Bridge where the gliders of the 6th British Airborne Division landed in the night of 5-6 June 1944.  The taking of this bridge, strategic place; was the first allied victory.

New Pegasus Bridge

Pegasus Mechanism

• What you can see on the beach are the remains of the artificial harbour of Arromanches

Arromanches Beach 2

Arromanches Beach 3

• This German artillery battery which pounded the allied ships on the morning of June 6, is the only coastal battery with its canons intact.

Longues Battery 2

• Bayeux British Cemetery

• Colleville American Cemetery

Coleville American Cemetery 2

• This statue stands for the "the spirit of the American youth coming out of the waves".

• Church of Sainte Mère l'Eglise.  The 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions were supposed to be dropped in Sainte Marie du Mont in the night of 5-6 June but, because of the bad weather, they were dropped a little more inlands than their objective and they arrived in Sainte-Mère l'Eglise, which was full of Germans.  This episode is told in the movie "The Longest Day".  One of the paratroopers, John Steel, got his parachute caught on a spire of the church and this saved his life.  He watched down all his comrades fight with the Germans.  You can see the dummy which represents him on the pictures.

Sainte Mère l'Eglise 40

• Règine near LCI

• Omaha Beach American Cemetery which contains 9,387 graves and overlooks Omaha Beach.

Colleville American Cemetery 2

Omaha Beach seen from Colleville

Colleville American Cemetery 26

Colleville American Cemetery 28

• Omaha Beach looking at Colleville 31

• Omaha Beach below Colleville 35

• This impressive cemetery contains 21,500 German soldiers, buried two by two.

La Cambe German Cemetery 37

• In front of the Airborne Museum in Sainte-Mère l'Eglise.

Sainte Mere lEglise Airborne Museum 43

• This is the first milestone marker of the road of freedom (km00) which starts in Utah Beach, goes through Sainte-Mère l'Eglise (km 0) and ends in Bastogne, Belgium.  This represents the itinerary of the US Army on the long fight for freedom.

• Utah Beach with some remains of the artificial harbor which was severely damaged by a huge storm and eventually abandoned.

• Infantry radio operator, which PFC Frederick F. Villani was for the 112th Infantry 28th Division, Co. M.
  

• 28th Division helmet we saw in the Omaha Beach Museum of Saint-Laurent Sur Mer, near Colleville